George Izard was the second Governor of Arkansas Territory and a MajorGeneral in the United States Army during the War of 1812.
Izard was born in Paris as the son of Ralph Izard who was a delegate to the Continental Congress and United States Senator from South Carolina, and Alice DeLancey, niece of New York Governor James DeLancey and a descendant of Stephanus Van Cortlandt and Gertrude Schuyler. He graduated from the College of Philadelphia in 1792. He attended military academies in England and Germany and received military engineering instruction in France.
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